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Kids’ Books: Anastasia’s Picks

I receive tons of great (and some not-so-great) children’s books to review, and I usually focus on titles that best suit my daughters’ ages and interests. Recently I decided that some of the books for older kids deserve a mention, so I have enlisted my beautiful, avid-reading nine year old niece “Anastasia” (she got to […] Read more…

Winner: Brag About It

Congratulations to the winner of the personalized necklace with tiny brags and birthstones from Brag About It: # 6 of 180 Kara S. of Northern Arm, Newfoundland Enjoy your prize, Kara! Read more…

Behind the Scenes at Cityline!

{Psst…Cityline is taped a week in advance, so this episode will be airing Monday, March 21st on CityTV!} Watch this episode online at cityline.ca! Click here. To celebrate my mom’s retirement from teaching last year, I had been trying for months to take her to see a taping of Cityline. Since I teach during the week, […] Read more…

The One Where I Tell You What My Thing Is

Everyone has a “thing”. Yours might be weight, teeth, or hair. You obsess over it, check out everyone else’s, and are unfailingly judgmental of your own. My thing is my skin. When I was about twelve, I started to break out. Then it got worse. And worse. I tried tons of over-the-counter products, and doctor-prescribed antibiotics and creams. […] Read more…

Millennial Moms: Is This You?

(Spoiler alert: a link to my radio debut is at the end of this post!) If you were born any time from the late 70’s onward, you can join me in calling yourself a Millennial Mom. What’s so special about us? Well, according to a new study from BBDO and Curiosity Inc., a whole lot. And since […] Read more…

Brag About It Jewelry – Review and Giveaway

Giveaway open to Canada and U.S. Brag About It Jewelry is handmade by a Canadian mother of two named Melissa, and is hand-stamped using individual stamping tools. She has a large array of gorgeous items: rings, necklaces, bracelets, which can be stamped with your children’s names and birthdates, or can be accented by their birthstones. These […] Read more…

Spill It!: Bad Mommy Moments

I’m a Good Mommy. I mean, relatively speaking. I have confidence that I (usually) do the right thing. I am also evolved enough to know that sometimes doing the right thing for my daughters means putting myself or my marriage first, so when I say I’m a Good Mommy, I’m certainly no martyr. That said, […] Read more…

Cool Toy: Glow Crazy Distance Doodler

It was just a few days before Christmas when I received a Glow Crazy Distance Doodler to review, and I have to be honest: I put it on a shelf for a few weeks, because I knew my girls did not need a new toy just then, what with the haul to come from Santa, […] Read more…

Why I’ll Leave the Baby-Exploiting to Teresa Strasser

Ten Reasons Why My Pregnancy and Birth Memoir Could Never Be as Good as “Exploiting My Baby”, by TV and Radio Personality Teresa Strasser 1. I am so unfunny. I’d like to think I have my (few and far-between) moments, but even when I’m at the top of my game, I reach about 20% of Teresa’s […] Read more…

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